Sunday, October 28, 2012

October 23, 27 & 28 - 8 Hours

Background detail

Lapse in blogging/lapse in motivation. It's not that I don't have an incredible amount of stress motivation to finish my portfolio by the quickly approaching deadlines...because I do. Life is starting to really conflict with studio time, and the unfortunate reality of having a time-consuming full time job is leaving me exhausted these days. I'm trying to channel my undergrad lifestyle of going to class, working 8 hours and then going back to the studio for hours before sleeping for a few hours and repeating the same thing the next day. Perhaps I'm getting to old for that? Forcing myself to go to the studio is only half the battle; I have to make some progress too!

I've always shied from landscapes because I'm simply not interested in painting leaves/trees/water, etc. When something is difficult, it's a good challenge -- this is one of the reasons that I love painting the face. So the challenge of a lake scene was...challenging...but also really frustrating and time consuming. However, I'm very pleased with the outcome and how impressionistic it ended up being.

Background is finally finished!

Not a happy brush anymore - I am way too rough with these delicate instruments.